After realizing the fact that scarcity of the potable water has become a perennial problem especially during the summer, the State Government sanctioned many projects worth lakhs of rupees to ensure the consistent supply of potable water.
Most of the projects were sanctioned in those areas that faced the brunt of natural calamities last year. Officials claimed that no district in the state will face the problem of shortage of potable water except those areas where pipelines were burst due to the natural calamities last year. People are facing huge crisis of drinking water in fringe parts of the districts and mountainous areas of the state are worst affected.
Project for strengthening the supply of potable water in Malli-Bamoori-Bellyjelly-Damuwadunga-Astha Vihar worth Rs 32 lakh, Bamoori potable water project worth Rs 41.70 lakh have been sanctioned by the state government.
Additionally, project worth Rs 53.03 lakh was also sanctioned for Badripura, Aishbagh, Gusain nagar, Vikaspuri, Ram leela mohalla, Kabristan road, Safdar, Gafur basti, Gandhi nagar, Tanakpur road, Rampur road, Himalaya farm, Adarsh nagar, Sangam Vihar, Shivpuri and Haldwani urban areas.
The department has also proposed for mobile generator set having capacity of 200 KV worth Rs 141.72 lakh for ensuring round the clock supply of potable water in case of power cut in Haldwani urban areas.
A project worth Rs 62.573 lakh has also been sanctioned for Bandikhatta, Himalaya colony, Gayatri colony, Krishna colony and Jamrani road under Damuvadunga. Rs 4.14 lakh have also been sanctioned for Kusumkheda potable water project for ensuring consistent supply of drinking water to the residents.
On the condition of anonymity one person from the department told that the potable water pipelines were badly damaged last year due to natural calamity that hit the entire state. He claimed that most of the broken pipelines were repaired except few localities. He further claimed that department officials have been regularly instructed to repair the broken pipelines in order to ensure round the clock supply of potable water to all those villagers who are living in the remote parts of the state.